About the Game

“One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa”. (describing a typical round of golf) --- Mac O'Grady "I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.” --- Beth Daniel "I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.” --- Harvey Penick "A well-adjusted individual is one who can play golf as if it were a game.” --- Anonymous "I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's game. It's called an eraser.” --- Arnold Palmer "Good putting is the banishment of doubt.” --- Ian Woosnam "The only way to build realistic confidence in yourself is through practice.” --- Sam Snead "I PUTT BEST when “my hands feel thin.” --- Horton Smith "A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors." --- Barry Fitzgerald "For what [Ben] Hogan meant, it's the old story. For those who know golf, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible." --- Jim Murray "There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open, park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." --- Charles Rosin "Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head." --- Grantland Rice "The more you play it the less you know about it." ---Patty Berg "No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par." --- Bobby Jones "Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off." --- Henry Cotton "I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt" --- Chi Chi Rodriguez "Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle." --- Arnold Haultain "Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough." --- Johnny Miller "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated." --- Arnold Palmer "It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it." --- Jack Nicklaus "One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good". --- George Archer "When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows." --- Gary Player "Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing." --- Ben Hogan "If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf." --- Percey Boomer " First we crawl, then walk, then run. Still before motion. Slow before speed. Soft before strength. Stillness, slowness, and softness are the foundation of motion, speed and strength." --- Mike Hebron "You have to make corrections in your game a little bit at a time, It's like taking your medicine.A few aspirin will probably cure what ails you, but the whole bottle might just kill you." --- Harvey Penick "Understand that golf is neither a right-handed nor left-handed game, but a two-handed one." --- Ernest Jones "There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf ." --- Grantland Rice "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls was like watching a fish practice swimming." --- John Schlee "All swings have one thing in common: whatever the tempo, the speeds of the backswing and downswing are the same." --- Johnny Miller "My first rule is, Distance without direction is worse than no distance at all" --- Nancy Lopez "When warming up before a round, make the last shot you hit on the practice tee the same as the first shot you have to hit on the course" --- Ken Venturi "With either a downhill lie or an uphill lie, always play the ball nearer the higher foot" --- Jackie Burke Jr. "If you could eliminate the occasional bad shot you would be the first person to do so" --- John Jacobs "Nobody ever swung a club too slowly" --- Bobby Jones "Give me golf clubs, the fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air" --- Jack Benny "After taking the stance, it is too late to worry. The only thing to do then is to hit the ball." --- Bobby Jones "Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss." ---Anonymous "The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims that he plays the game merely for exercise" --- Tommy Bolt "Like life, golf can be humbling. However. little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. --- Grantland Rice "Golf is the hardest game in the world. There's no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you into your place." --- Ben Crenshaw Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five. --- Paul Harvey Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say,"Man, we shot 66! But go out and shoot 77, and they say, "Hell, he shot 77!" --- Lee Trevino "It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf" --- Robert Lynd "Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them" --- Jimmy DeMaret "Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty" ---Harry Vardon